Suckle Mama’s Punch at Babies ‘n’ Beers
The struggle of being an adult is real: you have kids, but your friends want you to go out and grab a couple of drinks. The problem is that the [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Belly Up To...
Posted March 25, 2015in What's Brewing?
Crispin Brewing Co.
Des Moines is creeping out of the dreary winter days and dancing into those long awaited, warm summer days. That means it’s time to drop the stouts and amber beers [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in News of the Weird
Witness protection
Even dangerous felons sometimes serve short sentences, but Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, 58 — guilty of nothing — has been locked up for nearly 900 days (as of early March) as a [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Sound Check
Toto “Toto XIV” Frontiers Chances are very good that if you still think of Toto at all, the album you think of is “Toto IV,” and its two No. 1 [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Sound Notes
The Iowa State Fair continues to roll out its Grandstand acts for this year’s edition. Latest to be added to the list: “All About That Bass” singer Meghan Trainor. Trainor [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a Kind?
The National Football League just can’t seem to keep its players’ names out of the papers. San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller was arrested on March 5 for domestic abuse. [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Center Stage
The war within
For a minute halfway into “My Name is Asher Lev,” nothing matters so much as a shadow. The dark profile of the title character, a budding artist, falls across a [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Book Review
“My Name is Mary Sutter”
“My Name is Mary Sutter” is the story of a strong-willed young midwife from Albany, New York, who is determined to become a surgeon at a time when women were [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Civic Skinny
Klinefeldt for Congress? Byers’ and Meyer’s salaries.
Nick Klinefeldt for Congress? The U.S. Attorney is the guy that the Democratic Party in Washington wants to run against first-term Republican Congressman David Young. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Locker Room
Tires that light the fires
If you’ve got the need for speed or are simply a glutton for auditory punishment, make your way to the Iowa State Fairgrounds this Friday and Saturday. The Prairie Tractor [...]
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